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Michael Clark : the British iconoclast who brought punk ballet to the masses : in Conversation with Les Child
Hailed as “British dance’s true iconoclast”, the most notable of all his successes of queer Scottish choreographer Michael Clark who emerged in the 1980s as a prodigy at London’s Royal Ballet School, was bringing punk ballet to the masses. The list of the people he has collaborated with since then reads like an inevitable…
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How many Joe Exotic ‘Tiger King” does the world really need?
How many Joe Exotic ‘Tiger King” does the world really need? The ‘real one’ became a household name in 2020 after the phenomenal success of the Netflix series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness Sadly (!) he ended up in jail for the failed murder plots to kill the (obnoxious) Carole Baskin of Big…
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The Sound of Identity : when Lucia Lucas made Don Giovanni soar
To mark the start of PRIDE MONTH on June 1st Shout Studios will be releasing one of the most uplifting LGBTQ documentaries we have seen for a very time. THE SOUND OF IDENTITY is the story of how Tobias Picker a remarkable queer composer who was the forward-thinking Artistic Director of Tulsa Opera House, …
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Have you got the Balls to watch this?
Back in 2016 Border2Border producer, Charlie David turned his attention to one of his favorite subjects. He enlisted queer award-winning director Nickolaos Stagias (I’m A Stripper) to make this very useful and ‘educational’ film ‘Balls‘ Essentially it’s a documentary about the body part most associated with manhood and what happens when that’s taken away. Our…
